FastTrack 4×45 · Portuguese lesson pack

Four lessons that fit the week you actually have.

Not a course you fall behind on. Four private 45-minute sessions, built around your goals, with a rate that rewards you for committing — and a rhythm short enough to keep the momentum.

Five weeks·Four sessions·You choose which four

The five-week rhythm is the point. Wide enough to work around a real calendar, close enough together that the language stays warm between sessions.

Buy the FastTrack pack €125 · save €15 · PT-PT or PT-BR

What we do with the time

Forty-five minutes, spent on what moves the needle.

Short sessions force honesty. There's no room for filler exercises, so we work on the three things that change how you sound: speaking with confidence, the vocabulary you'll genuinely use this week, and the corrections that make you clearer and more natural.

You speak, mostly

The lesson is built around you talking. I correct as we go, and I keep a record of what to fix — so nothing gets corrected twice and forgotten twice.

Materials made for you

Every text, dialogue, and activity is written or curated for your situation. Nothing here is a worksheet I found online.

You leave knowing what's next

After each session you get a short, specific focus for the days in between. Not homework for its own sake — the one thing worth practising.

Between the lessons

Practice that doesn't feel like practice.

A 45-minute lesson is where the work happens. What keeps it alive is the seven days after it — and nobody sustains that on grammar drills. So the practice comes back as something you'd actually open.

Wordwall

Games built from your own lessons

Matching, sorting, quizzes — made from the vocabulary you struggled with this week, not a generic A2 word list. Two minutes on your phone, in a queue.

EdCafe AI

A place to rehearse without an audience

Chatbots built for your real situations — the market, the pharmacy, the Finanças. Say it wrong ten times in private, so you say it once, well, out there.

Google Drive

Your folder, yours to keep

A private folder shared between the two of us. Every slide, audio, and correction lands there as we go — and stays there when the pack ends.

None of this is homework you'll be graded on. It's there because progress between lessons is what makes the next lesson worth having.

What's included

The whole pack.

Denise M. Castro reaching for a book in her library, beside a whiteboard and a desk with an open notebook.

Who's teaching

A Brazilian who teaches European Portuguese, because she had to learn it herself.

I'm Denise — a Luso-Brazilian teacher and linguist with more than 15 years of teaching behind me, across Brazil, Germany, and Portugal. I began in Brazil teaching language, literature, and writing; in 2012 I moved to Europe alone, and since 2020 I've lived and taught in Madeira.

I'm currently completing a Master's in Portuguese as a Foreign and Second Language at the University of Coimbra, where my research is on the Madeiran variety and Portuguese pluricentrism.

Which is to say: I know from the inside what it costs to arrive somewhere and rebuild your confidence in a new language. That's what shapes every lesson.

Price

Commit to four, pay for less.

€125€140

4 × 45 minutes · €31.25 per session

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Secure payment via Stripe. As soon as you've paid, you'll get your booking link to schedule all four sessions at times that suit you. Prefer to test the water first? A single FastTrack 45 is €35 — message me.

Talk to me first

Not a contact form. Just me.

Before you book

The practical questions.

How does it work once I've paid?

Stripe takes the payment, and you immediately get a booking link. You pick all four slots yourself, at times that fit your week — the five-week window starts from the first one. If nothing on the calendar works for you, message me on WhatsApp and we'll find something.

What if I can't fit four sessions into five weeks?

Talk to me — life happens, and I'd rather adjust than lose you. A holiday, a work trip, a difficult month: we find a way around it.

That said, I'll be honest about why the five weeks are there. Language doesn't wait for you politely; what you build in one session starts fading in the next. Four lessons spread over five weeks compound. The same four spread over five months are four beginnings. The window isn't a rule I enjoy enforcing — it's the thing that makes the pack work.

Is 45 minutes enough, or should I take the longer pack?

It depends on what you're short of. If it's time, and what you need is momentum in a full week, this is the right pack. If what you want is to go all the way into a topic without watching the clock — sustained conversation, the logic under the grammar — then the Deep Dive 4×90 is built for that.

I'm a complete beginner. Is 45 minutes enough?

Yes, and often better. At A1, shorter and more frequent beats long and exhausting. We build from the ground up with structure.

Can I switch between European and Brazilian Portuguese?

You can. I live between both varieties every day, and I'll be explicit about which one we're in and why it matters — without turning every lesson into a comparison.

What happens if I need to reschedule?

Let me know at least 24 hours ahead and we'll move the session. Message me on WhatsApp and it's sorted in a minute.

Do I keep the materials afterwards?

Yes. Everything lives in a Google Drive folder shared with you — it stays yours after the pack ends.

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